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Krug Vintage Champagne 1996
1lwrl, 12ogb
Bottle (12)

"A wine from the foremost vintage from the foremost producer can
of course not be other than fantastically good. It is however easy
to be disappointed when expectations have been raised too high. I
was offered my first bottle of this stately but immature wine by
the Danish wine-loving couple Peter and Torun Kirk during an
unforgettable dinner at their villa in Copenhagen. We drank it side
by side with an absolutely wonderful bottle of 1988 Krug that
out-classed the '96 in the degree of pure pleasure. It must however
be said that the '96 is going to be a heroic wine though it still
has a very long time to go yet. It is reminiscent of the '28 and
also partly of the '61 in its compact costume and with its
youthfully peevish acid. A monumental construction still at the
model stage. Store!!!!" (95 pts. Richard Juhlin, June 2014)